skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely not. I don't want the same language on all apps and the one I have on apps is not necessary the one I want on your site.
Friend of mine's boyfriend was born in the USSR and was Jewish. To get into college he had to pass a mathematics test that anyone who learned math in high school wouldn't be able to pass. He got in. Then his dad applied for a visa to move to Israel and they kicked him out.

Guy hates communists, leftists, f*scists, Putin, and anything like DEI. Basically anyone that seems to have a habit of doing to people what the communists did to him.

I think it's a good point to be really suspicious of systems that categorize people into convenient boxes based on things that have no control over. That then determines what happens to them.
Class based admission meant discrimination against Jews.
Was the automation the more difficult of the two problems?

Why did the Polish mathematicians not undertake that step themselves between 1932 and 1939?
It's not waterless, but rather using a water slurry 2.5 times denser than water, which allows for efficient operation with less altitude difference between basins.
Do engineers at FAANG choose what problems they want to solve? At places I worked, it was more of management task to choose problems to solve. Developers just worked on tasks they were given.
Its not but it is being banned because people are getting their news from there and its not following the right narrative that the 'real' news agencies are failing at peddling to the public.

Then again I could be wrong and the U.S government just doesn't like people people dancing, hard to tell which one is the reason behind it all.
In the case in the article, it sounds like the killed person was walking down the middle of a totally ordinary sidewalk, not a bus stop or intersection or storefront or anything. Are you proposing we place bollards on the edges of every sidewalk in existence?
Alternatively - you can get an export license for information to the particular person. Kind of like a TAA for a foreign employee. Previous employer had a European EW expert in the US office temporarily. Still not fast and lots of paperwork and limitations.
Are you saying that every news outlet that reports false claims by eyewitness accounts which turn out not to be true and aren't sufficiently loud about retractions should be banned by their host countries?

Because I can think of quite a number of stories over the years, and even in terms of this current conflict in the Middle East, where there were falsehoods in the fog of war or even intentionally seeded that turned out not to be true and many of the news organizations airing them initially only took stories down and didn't run front page denouncements of their own reporting.

I agree that retractions and in general journalistic integrity needs a bit more attention as a global society, but banning news organizations that print things you don't like is something I tend to associate with a very Stalinesque mindset and not a bastion of democracy and liberty.

In general, individuals and groups are bettered by exposure to naysayers than surrounded by yes-men.
They're a modern news site so I agree with you that fake or sloppy news is a problem,

however this example is that they interviewed someone who made an inflammatory claim, and then the next day removed the claims when it came out that they were false. That hardly seems that bad for our modern news landscape.

And then you have a meme of some AJ reporters saying "Terrorists in press dresses." captioned "You can't put lipstick on a pig, you can't put a press vest on a terrorist."

That's pretty inflammatory and biased too!
Can you back up the implied claims with some references?
When all you know is React everything looks like it needs a fat client?
> the government should not stifle the market of ideas

America is uniquely individualistic, our First Amendment uniquely strong. I believe in it. But it's not clear it's the only optimum.
Then let me go on record as saying that I fully support my government and my army's efforts to return the remaining hostages even in the face of double-standard world efforts to legitimize the genocidal, racist, homophobic, and misogynistic Hamas regime.
RT and PressTV are banned in quite a few western countries.
In this context it seems to refer to programming in a language where the developer facing code is represented in terms of data structure literals within the language. It's a reasonable understanding of what is usually meant in a Lisp-like setting. The code is a list, so you can trivially construct and deconstruct executable lists, just like you can trivially construct data carrying lists.

One could make clever quips that this isn't enough, you need quote/unquote as well to make it practical, and is that really implied by homoiconicity? Should we really use this word? Maybe we should pay someone to make up a new one?
I don't think Larry and Sergey is on the same level as Bill Gates. Solo founders who have raised to and led a big tech company is a different breed. I would pick Jeff Bezos, Zuck and Larry Ellison on the same level of Bill Gates. They don't manage day 2 day but big strategies don't go through without their blessing. Even though you can say Bill does not manage, the top level executives will always think "what would Bill do" or "what would Bill think about this".
Previously in HN:

14 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40131908

0 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40130765

The linked URLs are different but they seem to be the same content, credited to one "John Viega", and include bizarre AI illustrations.

No idea whether that's the author or someone else reposting the content in different websites.
The automatic bollards in my city, designed for exactly that purpose, have claimed over 200 tailgating cars since their installation.
Since when is the entire Europe a party in the war on Ukraine?
The discussion is somewhat moot, what did bug me is that the article claims those are typical tolerances inherent in the machining / wire edm / molding processes whereas it just may be the tolerance that is applied if nothing else is agreed upon. You can achieve much tighter tolerances if needed, even in mass-produced stuff like LEGO bricks, plastic lenses, iphone / macbook cases, PCBs, etc...
Correct. Cars need to be separated from people by barriers. But that goes both ways. Deaths by pedestrians getting into places they shouldn't are very common even absent roads (ie railroad crossings). Some have called for all railroads to be fenced off. But few want to live in a world with fences around every possible dangerous area. When I went to school there was no fence. Now schools are surrounded by so many that they look like prisons. Barriers can go too far.
> Likely a few too many

I guess it's fun to be a contrarian, but I didn't expect to see a pro-death contrarian position here.
Does this have any affect on your belief that "so you cannot possibly have any basis for assessing my understanding or lack thereof" is a true statement?
I think the modern-day conflation of the philosophical notion of diversity with “diversity of skin color” / “racial diversity” is actually harmful. When we speak of diversity today we often imply a sort of supposed-deserved reparations toward the “minorities.” Obviously there are so many incorrect aspects of these assumptions, but many people in power, perhaps all, have accumulated guilt that needs an outlet.

Diversity, the platonic form, is about diversity of thought, opinion, and experience. It is about improving our ability as a group to solve the problems we face by introducing alternative perspectives and viewpoints. It has nothing to do with race or gender necessarily but demand for diversity greatly outweighs the supply and as with all measured things, measuring the number of “diverse” hires has ceased to be a meaningful metric. Granted, it never was a meaningful metric as such, but it has become actively harmful in modern day.
Also beware of weaponized CoCs and the paradox of tolerance.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30726098

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/the-tyranny-of-the-bureaucr...
Only the sidewalks next to roads.
Correction: a PIJ rocket, not a Hamas rocket.
It's executed at runtime, not before some compilation stage.
Google would have probably been better off if Eric Schmidt had stayed engaged.

I don't like the guy's opinions on many things, but he was pretty good at keeping the ship headed in generally the right direction.
The structure of near every roof, apart from the skyscrapers, ist made of wood.
Anywhere street racing happens, legal or no, probably yes.
Context for others who missed this particular storm in a teacup: https://freespeechunion.org/harvard-professor-needed-armed-p...

On the question of non-lethal uses of force, the study found “sometimes quite large” racial differences in police use of force, even after accounting for “a large set of controls designed to account for important contextual and behavioural factors at the time of the police-civilian interaction”.

In stark contrast to non-lethal uses of force, however, the study observed that when it came to the most extreme use of force – officer-involved shootings – there were no racial differences “in either the raw data or when accounting for controls”. According to one case study of the Houston police department, black people were actually 23.5% less likely to be shot by police, relative to white people, in an interaction.
This one: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005657383634.html?spm=a2...
This is a great write-up.

It's a very serious issue. I don't really know if there is any "one solution." I suspect that each project needs to set its own bar, and that any dependency that falls out of maintenance should be removed as quickly as possible (which was good practice, beforehand, but even more important, now).

[EDITED TO ADD]

I would also think about "scoring" the sensitivity of projects. Things like cryptography and low-level drivers would be highest-rated, while user-space chrome might not be as important.
Something in the page kept reloading it when scrolled down trying to read on mobile firefox
Train AI had some time ago added AirPods (in addition to Apple Watch and phone) to their automated workout tracking:
https://trainfitness.ai/
Do you think every participant to Mao’s cultural revolution was consenting?

No. People do whatever they can throughout history, and end up having to participate to larger changes. The only remedy we’ve found was Humanism, l’esprit critique, education for everyone, and raising awareness and allergy to all authoritarian acts, but see, in the last 50 years, I’ve seen younger people who aren’t even aware who Diderot is, let alone had enough literacy to read or write those books fluently if they spent the time, even in $130k jobs. Then we flooded each country with about 12% people who haven’t had those Humanism tenants taughts at school.

I’ll from using a stronger metaphor because it will sound cheesy, but by losing the teachings of logic, rhetoric and history, our civilization is not able to hold the pillars of democracy anymore.
I cannot imagine being okay with an ambulance rocketing down a sidewalk that is explicitly designed as a "pedestrian zone." The solution to emergency vehicles being unable to navigate streets in a timely manner is to redesign the streets, not to normalize the practice of endangering pedestrians. Additionally, if it is necessary to design a mixed pedestrian/vehicle zone, there are absolutely ways to go about that, with specific and different buildout and signage. Any city planner whose solution is "Oh, well, the emergency vehicles can just use the sidewalks to turn or pass other vehicles, and they'll be careful so it's okay" is committing malfeasance and should be held legally responsible for the deaths and injuries arising from said decision.
Can you tell me where in this "dedicated literature on food production in Asia" it says or implies that people made or ate brown rice before 1750?

I'm interested in learning more and in eliminating any false beliefs I have.
A few thoughts this brings to mind:

1) this reminds me of how I was thinking about “what if you tried to modify an n-gram model to incorporate a poor-man’s approximation of the copying heads found in transformer models? (one which is also based just on counting)”

2) What if you trained a model to, given a sequence of tokens, predict how many times that sequence of tokens appeared in the training set? And/or trained a model to, given a sequence of tokens, predict the length of longest suffix of it which appears in the training set. Could this be done in a way that gave a good approximation to the actual counts, while being substantially smaller? (Though, of course, this would fail to have the attribution property that they mentioned.)

3) It surprised me that they just always use the largest n such that there is a sample in the training set. My thought would have been to combine the different choices of n with some weighting.

Like, if you have one example in the training set of “a b c d”, and a million examples of “b c e”, and only one or two other examples of “b c d” other than the single instance of “a b c d”,
does increasing the number of samples of “b c e” (which aren’t preceded by “a”) really give no weight towards “e” rather than “d” for the next token?
Building streets is going to become pretty expensive if we follow that advice.
> do the residents of Gaza treat it as the main news source?

Does Gaza have sufficient connectivity for its population to have a real news source?
There is a difference between 'maximizing performance' and 'picking literally the worst tool for the job because I don't care lmao'
> RT was heavily censored in the USA

Really?

I am a long way away, but I thought the constitution prevented that
I saw this in the "Printing music with CSS grid"-discussion and played a bit with it then. I really like the idea of using the constraint solver part of a layout engine for something else, very clever.
Interesting because I think completely the opposite and find it ridiculous to start by teaching people about objects and the like. Why do they need to know that? I don't know what you mean by replacing one set of assumptions with another. What assumptions? It's just making copies at certain points when you decide it's the next version. That's the point. What better way is there to explain that than using primitives like cp etc?

I have certainly enjoyed learning git from the ground up but the problem I have with it is why? It's like learning calculus without having an application for it. The point of git is to do version control. If you don't get that it's like trying to use calculus to do the dishes.
Product Management at Meta vs. Google or How to Evaluate Your Google,Meta Offer
We've been adding features for 30+ years to open source software, they become so complex only very few people understand them anymore. Recently I looked into jfet level 2 implementation in ngspice, expecting familiar equations, but through series of small changes and maybe some DRY too, the code is almost unrecognizable. When graybeards finally retire, there will be lots of shrugs.
This point inadvertently exposes an aspect of information management which is sorely unaddressed and inadequate to purposes of understanding within a commonwealth:

That situations conflict which are already well understood to history are regurgitated as mysteries, and the knowledge system is practically useless to providing coherent access to previous experience and context.

When a mod has to write:

> If you look at <URL> and the links back from there, you should find more than enough (indeed, frequently repeated) explanations of the relevant points. If you (or anyone) want to familiarize yourself with those answers and still have a question I haven't addressed, I'd be happy to try.

Why has a new thread been created?

Why isn't this article and the attending thread of comments already situated within existing paths of discourse helping readers to assess the long prevailing (say 100 years) of understanding on the topic and identify, explore and integrate the outlying views? Why hasn't all the redundant and trivial junk of the previous thread been sifted and gleaned into salient regards for the situation?

Does any media apparatus help with us with knowing how what's happening today relates to what we understood yesterday and the days before?

Why is all news manifest as a reverse chronological list of forgettery, de-contextualized factoids and rediscovery of precedents among initiates?
They used to be made of cast iron, probably good for a couple of hundred years I’d image, unless smashed or stolen for scrap (sometimes this does happen). I wonder what they make them out of today that leads to needing frequent replacement.
I don’t know if it’s just me, but it is very hard to parse the title headers that say “What are not bollards.” It’s not a standard way to construct that thought into a headline.
> The rise of non-copyleft licenses proves that the only freedom most people care about is their wallet's.

This ignores how much freedom the wallet requirement takes away.
Swiss German is not German. It is a language kinda similar to German. Bit, if you studied German and can get by in Germany, you will still be clueless in Switzerland
In July 2017, former CIA director David Petraeus revealed that Qatar has hosted the Hamas leadership at the request of US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_and_state-sponsored_terr...
We may be talking about different things.

Let's say that you have a standard multivariate normal with unknown mean mu = [a, b, c].

The usual maximum-likelihood estimator of the unknown mean when you get an observation is to take the observed value as estimate. If you observe [x, y, z] the "naive" estimator gives you the estimate mû = [x, y, z].

For any arbitrary point [p, q, r] you can define another estimator. If you observe [x, y, z] this "shrinkage" estimator gives you an estimate which is no longer precisely at [x, y, z] but is displaced in the direction of [p, q, r]. For simplicity let's say the resulting estimate is mû' = [x', y', z'].

Whatever the choice you make for [p, q, r] the "shrinkage" estimator has lower mean squared error than the "naive" estimator. The expected value of (x'-a)²+(y'-b)²+(z'-c)² is lower than the expected value of (x-a)²+(y-b)²+(z-c)².
> There is a huge difference between trying to counter institutional prejudice in order to improve the quality of the student body and work being done, and whatever you think a religious “pledge of allegiance” is.

In the eyes of the advocates for each, I actually don't know that there is.

Religious pledges likely are intended to say "we want faculty who will teach and represent the values this school holds and that students expect out of this institution", which feels pretty much exactly like the rationale for DEI pledges.
Anyone who has played Eve Online is familiar with this process. Gain membership, become a valued contributor to the corp, then betray it for profit.
I don't know why you're getting down voted for this. It's a very precise description of what has been happening the last decade. Conform and declare your support or be ruined, even if you have valid criticisms and disagreements with the doctrine.
What sidewalk isn’t next to a road? It’s in the name: side-walk.
Who said anything about speed? A vehicle like a fire truck can simply be too long/wide to get around a corner even at a walking pace. So they use the sidewalks. Emergency vehicles in pedestrian areas is a very common. So any barrier system needs to accommodate them.

Every, and I mean every, neighborhood is laid out on the premise that firetrucks can get to every location. The size of buildings, even the width of city blocks, is often tied to the capacities of the local fire departments to push water using pumper trucks. Want multi-story residential areas? The roads better be able to handle ladder trucks too.
I think it's less the impunity and more the active supporting. The US is building a floating pier and air-dropping aid instead of simply pressuring Israel's government to let trucks through.
In general, one solution is to just keep the original inputs around as necessary. So instead of x -> x mod 4, take the function x -> (x, x mod 4); the inverse is just (x, y) -> x.

The actual % operator in this language is defined as (x, y) -> (y, x / y, x % y), acting as a divmod. The + and - operators are defined as (x, y) -> (x + y, y) and (x, y) -> (x - y, y). And so on, making sure enough inputs are left on the stack to reconstruct the others.
> is there anyone that actually defends these DEI statements with a coherent argument

When Richard Dawkins spoke at UC Berkeley in 2008, he argued that "raising awareness" about feminism by changing how we speak and think has changed society for the better. (In the same discussion, he seeks to do the same for children's freedom from their parents' religion.) There is no doubt that Western society has changed how it treats and speaks about women.

That said, Dawkins has in more recent years found himself opposing identity politics as they seek to change language usage and perceptions of gender.
"and block its websites." So this keeps Israelis from reading Al Jazeera.

Now that's new. Israel started Internet censorship in 2017.[1] Initially it was limited to "terror group websites, online illegal gambling, prostitution services, hard drug sales". At the time, "due to warnings from rights groups that the law poses a slippery slope toward additional censorship, the final version of the legislation dictates that rights groups may appeal the decisions."

Then, in 2021, there was the "Facebook bill", authorizing very broad censorship.[2] That does not seem to have passed. It was first proposed in 2016, almost passed in 2018 [3], tried in 2021, and tried again in 2022. It doesn't seem to have passed.

But something new happened recently. Wikipedia has a note at Censorship in Israel: "This article needs to be updated. The reason given is: New ban issued by the knesset on foreign media channels. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (April 2024)"[4]
The Knesset gave the government the authority to ban foreign media on April 1, 2024.[5]

This isn't just about preventing outside media from reporting from Israel. It keeps Israelis from viewing media the government doesn't like. Haarez has good coverage.[6]

The US White House press secretary issued a weak statement condemning Israel's action, but it was on April 1st and the costumed Easter Bunny overshadowed that statement.[7]

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/to-tackle-online-crime-israel-...

[2] https://www.timesofisrael.com/proposed-censorship-bill-more-...

[3] https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-israel-nearly-destroyed-fr...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Israel

[5] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israels-knesset-approve...

[6] https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-05/ty-article/is...

[7] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/202...
> Words are not knifes. People eventually will adapt to lies and weird things. And truth will find a way.

In the meantime there could be a war [1].

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/remember-the-maine-56...
Do present/perceive these very interesting and impressive stories as being an accurate reflection of the relevant states of affairs, or more so a description of your prediction/belief of how they are?
Salesforce translates (or did when I last used it) all the language and time zone options. If you switched to Japanese by accident, switching back was a bit of a challenge.